F.W. Woolworth announces the grand opening of a new store in downtown Anitaville.
The store front was made from remnants of a Colorado Model Structures kit. A new facade was added to the old building in order to ‘modernize’ it and bring it up to date for this mid-century American town. That’s me in front of the building, doing some last minute Christmas shopping. The coffee cup next to the building is not to scale. -Kevin.
That looks great Kevin. Now you just have to decerate it for the holidays.
neat redesign… 
Good work, those CMS kits are fun bash-fodder.
Looks great! My favorite store away back when. Toy soldiers or tootsietoy cars for 10 cents each, even airplanes, all metal too. I’d get 10 cents to spend each time Mom took me downtown with her to shop. Oh what a hard choice to spend that dime. hehe!
Kitchen stuff, household items, scads of costume jewelry, glass animals and glassware almost all 25 cents or less.
Nice job Kevin and your signage looks great.
Looks Great Kevin…
Nice job, Kevin! How did you do the letters? Just the way I remember them.
We also had J.J. Newberry’s next to the Woolworth, and farther down W.T Grant. All gone except for my memories. Two Guys was the best place to get trains at the after Christmas sale for like 75 per cent off!
Lou
Nice Work!
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Very well detailed!
Very nice!
Nice work Kevin!!!
Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
Lou- The letters are made by a company called “Thickers.” They are available at Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and other craft stores. These are the foam based letters- not the easiest to paint but they hold up pretty well outside. The company also makes a chipboard letter as well. I doubt they’d hold up well outside. I also remember Grants, Niesners, Two Guys, etc. We also had a store called Twin Fair (another “Two Guys” type of place), here in Buffalo- not really a five and dime, but lots of good deals.
I just noticed how yellow my beige bricks look in the photo. I guess photography is not one of my better skills!!!
-Kevin.
Oh man - How many hours did I spend going up and down the isles of Twin Fair at Transitown? Thanks for that memory Woolworth’s looks great!
Nice work,Kevin. I also picked up the’ Thickers’ for one of my builds. Nice and easy to work with, a few different styles to choose from too.
i like that!
the floor tiles visibvle through the door, are they a real floor, or a pic incorporated into the door?
Thanks Jon, Dave, and Korm.
Korm- The floor tiles are real. I plan on adding a few more interior details near the front door. I don’t want to add a complete interior, but maybe just a few items within view range. Also, maybe some type of ‘sale’ posters behind the items in the front window. Hopefully, I’ll find some vintage ‘sale’ or ‘store ad’ posters on the internet somewhere. Anyone got any ideas?
-Kevin.
Here you go Kevin, from 1958 Kingston NY. Way before my time but cool looking none the less. Nick
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/parade.jpg)
If this link works it’ll lead to some useful images of Woolworth’s. Items were mostly displayed individually and unboxed in separate compartments on the counters in the earlier days. Toy cars and soldiers could be freely examined by little hands one by one to make choices. A couple of the photos show the counter arrangements which are as I recall during the 1940’s and into the 1950’s.
The ever present lunch counter is shown also.
http://viewlinerltd.blogspot.com/2008/07/fw-woolworth-company-1939.html
That is really nice work–I’ve never seen a Colorado model structure looking so dead right
Hey Kevin, what about Sattler’s?
